🚀 go-pugleaf

Who cares? The Royal just announced yestererday that it is laying off 16,000
people anyways for crissakes! Merger or no merger, the same result.....

David wrote:

> In 1998, four of Canada's biggest banks proposed to merge. The deals would
> have meant the loss of thousands of Canadian jobs and the closure of
> hundreds of local branches across the country. The Council of Canadians
> launched a well-publicized cross-country campaign to convince federal
> Finance Minister Paul Martin to reject the proposed mergers and bring
> greater accountability to the banking industry. The Finance Minister ruled
> against the mergers on December 14, 1998.
>
> We owe the Council of Canadians our gratitude.
>
> John Corman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:57:15 GMT, David <davidj@home.com> wrote:
> >
> > >John Corman wrote:
> > >
> > >> But Lars, knowing the intellect of those who would actually listen to
> > >> this screwball, they wouldn't know what year it was anyway.
> > >
> > >John Corman is a leading intellectual because he knows what year it is.
> > =====================================================
> > My goodness.  A scathing attack from what appears to be an unarmed
> > warrior.
> > Do you actually want to debate the intellect of Maude and her
> > followers David, or is this just a little gorilla warfare.  Hit and
> > run, so to speak?
> > If you do want to discuss the sanity of Maude and her followers, why
> > don't we start with the "Banking Conspiracy".  That conspiracy,
> > according to Maude and her ilk, had it that in the early nineties, the
> > banks, in conspiracy with the Conservatives, maintained high interest
> > rates as a pay back for their political support.  Funny though, how
> > low interest rates in the mid to later part of the nineties resulted
> > in the biggest earnings in the banks' history.
> >
> > The next Maude conspiracy has it that the banks don't pay income
> > taxes.  But that's probably a little too much for you to absorb all at
> > once so we'll just leave that for the time being.
> >
> > John Corman ****** @server home.com